ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,963, issued on July 8, was assigned to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Triangle and multi-hypothesis combination for video coding and decoding" was invented by Tangi Poirier (ThorigneFouillard, France), Karam Naser (Mouaze, France) and Edouard Francois (Bourg des Comptes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least a method and an apparatus are provided for efficiently encoding or decoding video. For example, a plurality of different motion prediction modes for a current block are obtained. The current block is encoded or decoded based on a combination of the plurality of different motion prediction modes with co...